This is a repackaged dotpup of my experimental Minignome from this thread:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9599

The old dotpup would overwrite files in Puppy 2.11, so I removed those.
To run Gnome, install only these 2 dotpups:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManagers/Gnome-2.14-for-Puppy-2.11/Gnome-2.14.2.pup (9 MB)

This is not a "full" gnome, only the panel and nautilus-filemanager.
However it might allow you to run many modern additional Gnome-programs.

Some of those also might require these dotpups:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManagers/Gnome-2.14-for-Puppy-2.11/optional/

I can not test the Webbrowser Epiphany, as I removed Seamonkey from Muppy (it is needed by Epiphany).
If you want to try it in Puppy 2.11:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Gtk-2.8.20/Gnome-2.14/Webbrowser-Epiphany/Epiphany-2.14.2.pup (500 kb)
Optional languagefiles for epiphany:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Libraries/Gtk-2.8.20/Gnome-2.14/Webbrowser-Epiphany/LOCALE/Epiphany-2.14.2-LOCALE.pup (1 MB)

Yes, those 2 applets seem not to work, you can choose to remove them from the panel.
Have not found out, why.

But the rest works, that's pretty cool, right?

Ok, some minor things might be enhanced.
My Epiphany-startscript uses a bad trick to run Dbus.
This could be enhanced.
For example you could modify the .xinitrc to run JWM by the dbus-daemon.
Must to dig into my old testfiles to look how I realized that with Icewm already.
And the menu is not as structured as it should be.

But these issues might be solved with some tweaks, and already now it is usable

I think Epiphany should have a iconbar, too?
Wait, have Puppy 2.11 here... yes, works.

Here is a old screenshot from my first tests some weeks ago:
http://dotpups.de/pics/puppy/epiphany-2.14.jpg

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And in XFCE your icons in Nautilus are lost.

The reason I think:
the file /root/.gtkrc-2.0 must contain such a line:
gtk-icon-theme-name="gnome"

Or it should include a second file:
include "/root/.gtkrc.mine"

Then .gtkrc.mine should have the line above.
Xfce has its own themes, so it might have overwritten these files, what makes the Nautilusicons disappear.

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Hm, here the taskbar does not work if I run it from the menu, though I use the updated dotpup with my bugfix. Running "Gnome" from a console it works.
Why not? Will require more tests...

In Muppy 004 it works, maybe my dotpup for Puppy 2.11 misses another file.
I'll try to solve it this weekend.

this may not be the problem for this case, but if you have a file or folder in the working dir called (for example) "myapp", and you "which myapp" or "pidof myapp" or "killall myapp", it will not work properly

this can cause bugs that are hard to find ... i think this is a problem that most distros do not seem to have (i think it is caused by Busybox)

bash does behave a little differently when running as sh (sh is a symlink to bash), and yes, executing a shell script or opening a shell as sh or as bash can cause bugs that are hard to diagnose.

THanks for what looks like a great dotpup. However, when I try to install on my 2.14, I am told that some files already exist (libgconf, etc.). All kinds of things are installed on this system, including many of your earlier dotpups, so not sure what to do. Should I ask it to overwrite?

YO! Thank you so much for making such an awesome Dotpup. I'm running it in Puppy 2.15ce, and so far I don't see many issues. There is a few Issue that I'm having problems with. Geany won't work now... :-/ (Error says Segmentation Fault.) I'll re-install the dotpup for it and tell you if it works. Also, the puppybackground bug started after I installed it. *though, that may be unrelated*

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